Antenna

Taoglas, the RF and antenna specialist, has brought out the FXP30x and PC30x series of embedded combination antennas, a new family of compact antennas designed to support cellular, GNSS and Wi-Fi connectivity for space-constrained electronic devices. Both series enable engineers to integrate multiple wireless technologies within a single antenna. There are  six bew antenna models across two form factors: the ...

Ground Control has launched its RockFLEET marine-grade antenna, which provides alternative navigation and timing data that doesn’t rely on GNSS. It addresses the problem of GPS jamming and spoofing for merchant shipping, says Ground Control. This is something increasingly faced by crews in parts of the Black Sea and eastern Mediterranean Sea, highlights the company. It gives ships an independent, ...

Novocomms of Birmingham, UK, has £1.5m of Innovate UK funding to develop 28GHz in-antenna switches. “The components we are developing are based on addressable low-loss semiconductors which can be used to switch signals to the elements of an antenna array across a wide range of frequencies,” said Novocomms chairman Colin Tucker. “This addressability reduces the complexity of the PCB on ...

Taoglas, the RF and antenna specialist, has enhanced to its Antenna Integrator tool – part of the company’s AntennaXpert design suite – adding  design flexibility and collaboration features. The updates come as the AI in the models learns, adapts and improves from ongoing real-life use cases. The latest Antenna Integrator update adds nine new PCB shape templates – including circle, ...

Oxford Space Systems (OSS) and Lacuna Space have announced the successful deployment of an additional two OSS helical antennas. Antennas These add to Lacuna Space’s satellite Internet of Things (IoT) constellation. And they mark ten successful launches of such deployable antennas with Lacuna Space over the last five years. Currently they are enjoying a 100% in-orbit success rate. The helical ...

Antenova has created a PCB antenna for 5G comms that includes band 71 (617 – 698MHz) for T-Mobile in the USA. “SR4L104 is future-proofed as it covers the most common current 4G & 5G bands globally, ranging from 617 to 7,125MHz frequency, including the new 5G bands,” said the company. It will “bridge 4G/LTE networks as 5G becomes the new global ...

Leankon has announced a 40 x 5 x 1mm surface-mount antenna intended to support 4G LTE and GNSS globally. Called LK1830201, it covers three bands simultaneously through a single 50Ω port: 698 – 960MHz: <-6dB return loss, <3 VSWR, >60% av efficiency, 1.4 dBi peak gain 1,710 – 2,690MHz: <-7dB return loss, <2.6 VSWR, >65% av efficiency, 3.5dBi peak gain ...

Antenova is aiming at LoRa, Sigfox and Zigbee with a surface-mount sub-GHz antenna covering 863 – 870MHz and 902 – 928MHz. Average efficiency is 72.5% in ISM 868 and 77.9% in ISM 915, said the company, adding: “Gatun offers higher efficiency compared to older generation ISM antennas.” ‘ISM’ wavelength bands are reserved for ‘industrial scientific and medical’ use. As well ...

GuRu Wireless has announced a mm-wave phased array with over 70,000 transmitters, intended to transmit power wirelessly to persistent drones. “Our current transmitter can deliver over a kilowatt of continuous power at distances exceeding 100 meters,” said company co-founder and CTO Behrooz Abiri. “For persistent operations, the system must be capable of delivering at least 500W to an aerial vehicle ...

Taoglas, the antenna specialist, has brought out a roof mount antenna designed for connected vehicle fleets across emergency services, utilities, and commercial sectors which integrates up to 18 antenna elements. Called the Patriot series, the antenna supports  5G and 4G cellular (600–6000 MHz), with both dual-band GNSS (L1 and L1/ L5) and a secondary GNSS (L1), Wi-Fi (2.4, 5.8, and ...